They're not your usual baseball cards. Topps Company will be issuing trading cards of confessed swindler Bernie Madoff as part of a series featuring the 'world's biggest hoaxes,
hoodwinks and bamboozles,' due out early this summer. Here's a sampling.

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Charles Ponzi

Ponzi's pyramid scheme lured thousands of New England residents in the 1920s with the promise of huge
returns in a matter of just a few months. The Ponzi card is the first in Topps' series of "World's Greatest Hoaxes, Hoodwinks, & Bamboozles."